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we've added electrodes into the back sapphire crystal and the digital crown allowing you to take an electrocardiogram so pretty cool tweet from Tim Cook yeah I saw it last night I actually responded to it some people misinterpreted what I meant you explained yourself it's a really cool story though it was a Tim Cook tweet relating to the Apple watch more specifically the feature which can monitor your heart and perform what is it an ECG an ECG measures the electrical activity of the heartbeat and it's used by physicians to help diagnose certain heart can diseases and in other conditions and this is the first ECG product offered over-the-counter directly to consumers yeah no this is this is serious stuff this is the kind of thing if you had an emergency and you went to the emergency room they would immediately hook you up to one of these if it was anything related to your heart or shortness of breath oh they would hook you up to a traditional version of this and they would get immediate feedback on on how your heart is behaving or rhythm irregularities exactly and so when they first announced the latest version of the Apple watch they made it clear that it was gonna have this feature in it and a lot of people in the crowd you know they clapped because people been talking for a long time about these sorts of health-related advancements in technology that could actually help people not just apps like health apps where you input your steps or you track your calorie intake but but kind of like almost more turning you into a cyborg of sorts where you've got this biofeedback of like how your body is behaving and so if you go back to the tweet new Apple watch saved my husband's life this week that's that's a crazy tweet mm-hmm only two days old and it diagnosed a fib so that's a heart condition and a hundred and fifty bpm he went to the ER and he never did in the past with those symptoms you just thought it was nothing and of course in the ER they found a major blockage in his arteries as a result gave him two stents and now he's good as new telling the world thank you I mean it's a it's an incredible tweet in the tech world to see something like that where a device that anyone can walk into a store and buy could actually save your life so Tim retweets with comment and then I tweet saying this is the best commercial I've ever seen which it is and to give you a little more clarity on what I meant by that it's like here's a real world case of an individual having their life saved by this piece of tech like what better case can be made for why you should pick one of these up it's like you decide Apple watch or death that's an incredible proposal that's a very dramatic statement it is but like that's essentially what they've encapsulated in this quoted tweet which is very hard to do now of course most people don't have this particular heart issue and both people aren't going to be dead if they don't buy an Apple watch but here is an example of that actually being the case and that's that's a really compelling reason to pick one of these up especially if you're in a particular age group where where individuals do have more heart problems or something like that it's also a major differentiating factor for the Apple watch versus other wearables like this is not popping up at least yet in other smartwatches so it's something that exists in the Apple watch exclusively and we can't say the same for other Apple products there there are fewer and fewer features that are specific to one particular device so anyway a few people got mad at me they're like they're like of course here's the here's the troll Lou talking about Apple but they didn't realize I was sincere in that comment I meant it's the best commercial even if it's unintentional even if it's not intentionally a commercial it's the best that they can possibly do because it has that real-world element and those highly elevated stakes of like this dude's life was saved because he bought an Apple watch that's intense mm-hmm and with the Apple watch there seems to be a lot of praise the fact that it is a health hardware mm-hmm you know and with these companies that is making you know smartwatches do you think that it's a good move for them to concentrate on you know health tech it's kind of funny with these smartwatches like trying to figure out really what they're most useful for because they've been out for a while now and you still the adoption rate hasn't been the same as smartphones for example do people really want notifications on their wrist do they want to be bothered more do they want games do they want specific apps I don't really know that really depends on the individual but who doesn't want this outcome that this individual had so the thing about health is it really encompasses everyone everyone cares about health to a certain extent assuming they're alive and breathing now an ECG is one version of an instrument that can kind of give you feedback on where you're at from a heart health perspective but of course there's probably other ones other instruments you might see in an ER in a hospital that could potentially be miniaturized and put into wearable devices that could be interesting for people I don't know is there like some version of that for blood glucose for diabetics I don't know but this is definitely one of those things where it's it's kind of a proactive measure where you're like well maybe nothing's wrong with me but if my tech can tell me before I know it that's compelling and keep in mind this they got the watch and it just happened two days afterwards yeah you know that's quick yeah yeah it's a it's a quick result it's it's really interesting it's it's an amazing store it's one of the better tweets I've ever seen like I said assuming everything is as it appears it's an incredible commercial advertisement unintentional commercial for Apple pitching the idea of wearing this monitoring device on your wrist just in case